New Ugandan scam sinks to new depths

[noelford]

It comes in the normal post, not email, hand written on school exercise paper, purportedly from a raped Ugandan child whose parents have been murdered and who needs money to pay for her schooling at St Paul's Nursing Training School.

I have received one of these letters.

They are VERY convincing, but it is a horrible SCAM. The school does not exist and once hooked, people are being taken for thousands.

Read more about it HERE

[alanbakewell]

You are absolutely right Noel, this is a horrible scam. I have often referred to "Snopes" for confirmation or otherwise
of these stories.

http://www.snopes.com/

Cheers, Alan.

[shadowhunters]

that is just completely wrong these people have no sense of hummanity or morals about them

Sam.

[noelford]

Just noticed a small mistake. This is a Ugandan scam, not Nigerian. I've corrected the original title.

[Stratpicker]

As disgusting a scam as this is, and these are, I'm often amazed how sensible people fall for this stuff. Don't they ever think it through?
How do they think the writer got your address? Divine Providence?
Do they actually do even a modicum of research before parting with their cash?
Didnt they think a PO Box was just a tad suspicious?
Perhaps the people who fall for these scams don't even know that the word gullible is NOT in the ENglish Dictionary.
Ian